Fishing-rod case



(N0 odel) J. KOPF.

ISHING ROD CASE.

No. 442,269. Patented Dec. 9, 1890.

FNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KOPF, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FISHING-ROD CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,269, dated December 9, 1890.

Application filed August 13, 1890.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

'Be it known that 1, JOHN KOPF, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Iinprovement in Fishing-Rod Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in fishing-rod cases for the reception of the several sections of a jointed fish-rod when the same is unjointed, as in transportation.

The object is to simplify and eheapen in a material degree cases of this character, and to so dispose the recesses therein as to render the case as light as is consistent with the proper strength.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the case open in position to receive the several sections of a rod. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section through line m of Fig. 1, representing the case closed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section through the line 1 1 of Fig. 1, representing the case closed; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of the case at one end, showing the case open.

As to exterior, the body of the case is composed of two halt-sections A and A. For' convenience the section A will be considered the cover and A the body portion of the case, although the recesses or grooves upon the interior faces of the two half-sections are intended to be the same. Beginning at one end for a distance sufficiently great to accommodate the butt portion of the rod, both the cover and the body are provided with large semi-cylindrical grooves l and B, respectively, which, when the cover is adjusted over the body portion, form the large cylindrical groove represented in cross-section in Fig. 3. The large grooves 13 B occupy the middle portions of the two sections, and after reaching the point which the upper end of the butt portion of the rod is intended to occupy, the said grooves are reduced in size and continue throughout the remaining portion of the cover and body, as represented at I) Z). The grooves 13 b and B b form a housing for the butt-section of the rod. Small cylindrical grooves O J are providedin the cover and body sections along one side of the grooves 13 Z) 3 b for Serial No. 361,863. (No model.)

the reception of the rod-section adjacent to the butt-section. hen the cover is adjusted upon the body portion, the two small cylindrical grooves O O form together the cylindrical groove, as represented in Figs. 2 and Upon the opposite side of the central groove B b and B b the cover and the body are each provided with two small semi-cylindrical grooves D l) and E E, which, when the cover is adjusted upon the body-section, combine to form cylindrical recesses for the reception of the two next succeeding joints or rod-sectionsna1nely, the tipsection and the section adjacent thereto in the four-j ointed rod in common use.

By locating the larger recess or groove for the butt-section centrally along the case, the groove for the next larger section at one side of the larger central groove, and the two smaller recesses for the smaller rod-section upon the opposite side of the central groove, I am enabled to materially lessen the thickness of the case along its front and back edges, thereby saving weight and at the same time leaving sufficient strength of material to render the case durable.

The ends of the case are represented by F and are made separate from and secured permanently to the ends of the body-section and conform in their shape to the cross-section of the case when the cover is adjusted upon the body. \Yhen the cover is swung open to receive the several rod-sections, the upper portions of the ends F will project above the body portion and form abutments against which the ends of the several sections may be placed when inserting the sections in the grooves, thereby insuring their arrangement so aslto admit of the elosin g of the cover down between the two ends F without liability of obstruction from the projecting end of any rod -seetion. l urthermorc, by making the body and cover in similar sections and independent of the ends F, I am enabled to form the body and cover in a continuous strip, the routing-machine being arranged to produce the enlarged semi-cylindrical recess B B at regular intervals twice the length required for either the body or cover section, a strip being then cut transversely through the middle portion of the deeper groove 13 B to form the cover and body portions of the case.

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The cover A is preferably hinged to the opposite edges and provided with a'larg'er cenbody portion at one edge, as shown at G, and trally-located recess for the reception of the t he front edges of the cover-and body portion larger section of the rod and with smaller remay be provided, the one with books H and cesses for the reception of the smaller sec- 15 5 the other with eyes 72 for the purpose of setions of the rod, located on opposite sides of curing the cover and body portions in closed the center of the case, substantially as set adjustment. forth.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- JOHN KOPF- A fishing-rod case composed of a cover and \Vitnesses: 10 a body-section, the case being reduced in FREDK. HAYNES,

thickness from its central portion toward its KATE E. PEMBLETON. 

